The background is made with the glycerin blending technique. Scribble the AquaMarker on your craft mat, take up a drop of glycerin with your blending tool, then your colour and blend it onto the water colour paper. A few water drops at the end give it a distress look. After it dried I added some white ink splatters.

I heat embossed the stamp image on paper and cut it out, it gives more dimension, above all it`s difficult to emboss directly on that background. To get a bit of interest I added a texture stamp to the background before I glued the image down.